@@deewaddle10 Yes I too remember many of those appliances. I remember helping my mom with the laundry using a wringer washer. I thought I was so big! Those were the days!
Back then…..Nostalgic…..When products were better built with exceptional quality materials….when plastic was not even in the thought and came to get everyone sick!!
@@overload65 I used to have one. But it looked like in the pictures all he was showing were manual carpet sweepers and the funny thing is he didn’t mention manual. he just mentioned electric. According to the video, it sounded like all carpet sweepers were electric.
I grew up with the ringer washer. You learned early to respect the rollers! Monday and Thursday were wash days. You would fill the wash tub with hot water using a hose attached to the faucet. Started with the whites and worked to the darks. After the wash the clothes were put through the wringers and each load was stacked. At the end of the wash cycle you would empty the wash tub and refill with cold water. Back the clothes went lights to dark as they were rinsed , put through the wringers and finally hung on the line to dry.
@@sharonbapp9613 ah yes, that wringer got me now and again! We didn't get electricity till 1954, in our house, so ice chest and kero lamps and wood fuelled stoves were my childhood.
Still used our wall mounted rotary phone until 2006. No power - no problem! 😁 I only stopped using it because I moved. It was the avocado green and was installed in 1963.
@@Lucylou7070Back circa 1970 I took the B55 bus from my school to 126th Street 2 blocks from my house. I read the builder's plate of the GM bus it had the month and the year it was built .... 1949! The B55 had the oldest buses of the New York City Transit Authority. The B56 had the modern 1960s buses with sliding windows. 😊
That’s to let you know, how dangerous they were. I had a neighbor, whose daughter almost lost her arm in one. Had to have major surgery. I remember my grandmother, getting caught also, but she managed to get away from it. They could just suck you in.
That Maytag machine was great. Sheets and towels first, work clothes last or throw rugs. My Mother always watched those wringers and warned me not to touch. Used through the 50s and some 60s,Never wore out and kept it for the rugs.
@@georgiafrye2815 Yes we had that Maytag Armstrong..only square wringer machine in history ...you start with delicates and then to lint free whites to towels and bedding .. and do work clothes .. change water to do darks and more work clothes ...change water and start over again ad repeat and change water if needed to for rinsing ...and yes had fingers and wrist caught once ..nothing severe ... Now have a mini washer with great agitation and a spinner .. NO need for long washes or spinning ...but cleans great.. had hand washed all for about 15 years till unable to do so .. wish had found these machines along time ago
I go caught in one of those ringers, I was eight years old. I was playing with the ringers, next minute, up to my arm in it. I hollowed out in shock, but the shock I received from mum was the worst, and hurt.
The carpet sweepers were not electric, they were manually operated. Pushing & pulling them caused gears or rollers to turn the brushes, there was nothing electric about them & kids were given the job of running these sweepers for moms.
There's a great movie scene, wish I could remember the Movie (sorry) when a prissy model-type gets stranded at some last ditch motel, and declares she is calling to have somebody come pick her up, and is completely stumped by the rotary dial; sort of pokes at the holes in befuddlement. so cute!
I think that fifty years ago there were fewer telemarketers. So many now no longer have a land line and just use a cell. And the telemarketers have auto dialers, but we have caller ID, so we can ignore them.
when I was a kid we lived off grid, icebox, ringer washer, outhouse, rootcellar, wood stove, kerosene lamps, pressure cooker to preserve food, butterchurn, , milk separator, lots of firewood, It was a hard life in northernmost wisconsin, I remember -60° where the house doors were frozen shut. I told myself that when I grew up I never wanted to live that way. such a hard life it was. I love modern living, electricity, oil heat, refrigerators, air conditioning, etc.
1:35 When my dad was a kid (in the early 1930s), they had an ice box. The ice man came twice a week. As the ice melted, it dripped into a bowl below the icebox, and Taffy (his dog) would drink from that. To his dying day, dad always called the refrigerator, "the ice box."
I remember my mother using a wringer washer. She also carried buckets of water from a stream that ran through our property to fill the machine. She was only 4’ 10” tall but her physical strength was astonishing.
Had a wringer washer when I went flatting - well after the 1960s. Wish they were still available - did a better job wish less water and detergent as well as extending the life of articles as you could manage wash time length.
In the 1950s our wood cookstove had a "water front" or "water jacket" to automatically heat the water, which was stored in a pressurized tank behind and above the stove,
I still use: stove top perculator, a "Dover" egg beater, "Griswold" cast iron skillets and a waffle iron with a No. 8 base, a circa 70s "Sunbeam" Mixmaster, several 50s era "Mirro" pressure cookers, and a piece mealed set of "Revere Ware Chef's Request" pot and pans. Yes, I bake my own bread, too.
I have my Mama's Revere Ware 2 quart double boiler and use the pot nearly every day. I can remember standing on a stool and stirring homemade puddings in the double boiler. Seemed like it took hours, but the result was worth it! I also have the 1 quart pot and the small soup pot, used daily. Also have the Dutch oven. All copper bottomed.
5:20 In the 1970s, I was taught that the first thing you should look at is a man's shoes ... So yes, I had shoe shining brushes, polish, polishing towels ... and kept my and my dad's shoes shiny and nice.
I remember quite a few of these appliances. My aunt had the wringer washer. My mom had one of those toasters where you opened the flaps on the sides, put the bread in push a button to light up the element and toast your bread. We had a coal stove and my mom used that to heat up the iron. (My bother still has the iron and uses it as a door as a doorstop. We also had a kettle to boil water. She also had one of the electric coffee machines, which I now own. Those old coffee grinders where you crank a handle to grind the coffee beans. Her fridge only had a small freezer. These some of the appliances I remember that my mom had. 😊
I grew up using a ringer washer & always loved them . I liked that you chose how much water & how long to let your clothing wash . I would love to have one now . These modern washers use too much water and soap . I also loved how the clothing smells after drying outside
I'm 76 and one of my jobs as a child was to help Mum with mangling the washing. It was very big, painted red and the handle was quite hard to turn. It did a good job though! Loved the Amish gentleman showing us his icebox!
When Hurricane Helene visited, she destroyed cell phone towers and I was without phone service for 13 days. As a part of my recovery efforts, I installed a rotary phone. Now, as long as the lines aren't down, I have phone service.
@@ghw7192NICE !!!!! not to mention the old rotary dials were more than capable of subduing a home intruder. Also, I really feel bad for Gen Z and most millennials who never got to experience the fine art of swiftly ending a conversation gone sour by slamming the hand set on the cradle while the other party is still yelling when they hear a loud CLACK! followed by the dial tone 🤣😉 Jokes aside, but Gen Z and most millennials really under appreciate just how reliable and robust mid 20th century equipment can be . Nowadays if your $2,500 Samsung refrigerator lasts more than 5 years you'd swear you purchased a quality product. Unlike the appliances from before the early 90s made in the USA that typically lasted for decades and only replaced because the looks were outdated like the avocado green and harvest gold kitchen appliances that defined the 1970s
@@rarelampcollectorOMG!! We had all these appliances (stove, fridge, washer/dryer in avocado. Later same in harvest gold plus the dish washer). All purchased from Sears & Roebuck. These appliances lasted forever! The dishwasher worked from 1975 until 2001!
check to make sure your land line uses hard wire copper service. i recently moved and the only phone service available was use voice over IP. so if your cell/internet is unavailable, there's no phone service.
A "mangle wringer washer" is really not a thing. A mangle is a device used to press (i.e. iron) fabric. A wringer, though similar in appearance, is used to squeeze water out of fabric. Therefore the proper term for the appliance is a "wringer washer".
Growing up in Germany in the 1950’s we called these wringers “Mangel”. My grandma had one, and as a little kid I would love putting wet clothes through the wringer by cranking the handle! I think there was a bit of magic involved. Then there also were the more commercial “Heissmangel”. (Hot Mangel). Those were made of 2 large hot rollers. You fed large pieces of dry laundry through, such as bed sheets or tablecloths, in effect ironing them. The Heissmangel looked much like the wringer, only much larger, and it was electric.
I’ve bought a few of those old wringer washers over the years and turned them into beverage coolers for parties and patios. Just add ice and your favorite canned drinks. The washer already has a drain hose attached and a lid to keep the cold in. On your percolator coffee segment I noticed the coffee mug said “Wolf Pack Cafe - St. German, Wisconsin “. We have been going there for years. Great food up in the Northwoods. 👍
When I was a child, my mother had a wringer washer that had two tubs divided by a wringer. My grandmother had a spring house on one of her properties. The spring house kept produce very fresh. My siblings and I would frequently sneak into spring house for a snack.😊
My husband said his mother had one & he got his arm caught in it as a little boy- so Yes it Can happen pretty easy. (No real harm done he’s fine- he was Lucky)✌️
@@TooLooze We those such heaters to keep our remote pumphouses from freezing. (I use a small one, backed by an old box fan to blow heat onto the well head.) My electric bill usually doubles in winter.
@@dmandman9 That may have been when they had motorized rollers. The only other thing to stop it would be if someone came into the room and saw you stuck in it.
@@dmandman9 and there's also icebox cake which is basically a no bake cake made out of chocolate wafers cookies and whipped cream in the cookies are simply softened being in the whipped cream for set alarm for time in the refrigerator
My father remembered the iceman and his delivery wagon from his childhood. He also remembered that strong man carrying it up to apartments on all four floors of the walkup apartments of his youth.
My grandmother heated her house with a Mealmaster wood / coal kitchen range. It had a pipe that coiled around the firebox which was attached to a tall copper tank which sat behind the stove and was fed by the cold water supply, and delivered the heated water to use in the house for bathing, or doing dishes in the kitchen. For laundry she heated water in large copper "wash boilers" on top of the stove, and would pour the water from them into her wringer washing machine. She had a 2 tub rinse stand. When the clothes had run through the cycle long enough in the washer, she would run them through the wringer into the first tub to rinse out the soap. For colors the second tub would be filled with just more hot water, and she would run them through the wringer again and rinse them a second time in that second tub before a final wring out, after which she hung them on the clothesline. for whites the second rinse tub would be filled with hot water also, but to that water she would add "bluing" which made them look even whiter and brighter.
She knew how dangerous it was and just didn't want anyone getting pinched in it. Really these days people might mistake them for some kind of medieval torture device.
There was a reason why many older folks called the refrigerator an "icebox". Same function, different method. When I was a kid, I saw a lot of churners at garage sales
I remember the wringer washing machine, the coal furnace, the icebox and the iceman, and the floor model radio with it's orangish dial and Sunday night programs. For some reason I don't recall programs on other days. We children sat on the floor in front of the radio and watched the magic. I recall getting a transistor radio for my 12th birthday and thought I was in heaven!
Rotary phones were heavy so that they wouldn’t slide around when you dialed a number. The first Princess phones had the dial on the base and were practically unusable until they moved the dial to the handset.
With the exception of the electric shoe dryer, I am familiar with these things from my great grandparents generation to my early childhood. Doesn't make me feel old, but they do make me feel nostalgic.
Coffee pots that drip leave you with raw coffee that is hard on stomachs ... boiled coffee is cooked coffee and more tasty and uses less grounds and better for health ...
I was years back in the mids of Thailand and China in a small villages and there they still had ice boxes and meat safes. Vacum cofeemakers are still sold until today in Asia. I was on holiday in Italy and many people still use the perculator and are still sold world wide. The shoebuff machine and toaster oven with rolers I see in many hotels. Iron stoves are still sold in America and Canada for the outback as centrall heating and cooking. Wood fire water heathers are still sold, they look different but they heat your leaving room and also the water for centrall heating system. Radiant heather I still see in many DIY stores. The carpet sweepers are not electric and still sold on as seen on TV a couple of years ago.
My grandmother used a wringer washer into the 1960s. It was in our basement. She also used a stick to separate clothes during the agitation process (there was no cover on the drum). That stick was so whitened it looked like a whale bone.
I remember a wringer machine just like in your photo in my husband's grandparents basement in the 1970's ~~ I didn't realize that it also washed! Good people. It's true that as long as a machine works, I keep it, not replacing it because a new style comes in. I recently had a (to me) new Maytag washer repaired ~ the switch turning it on & off when you lift the lid wasn't working. I had to laugh when the repairman said it dated to pre-2000. Lol! He said that this model was the best washer they'd made! Lol! ❤ Nice to think of you today, Grandma and Grandpa!
The push sweepers shown weren’t electric. The brushes were turned by the wheels attached to the brush shaft. Also, the mangles shown on some of the washing machines had automatic releases if your hand or clothes got caught. It still hurt, but eliminated most bone breaks.
In 1979 I had no washer or dryer. my mother bought a ringer washer and 2 tubs for $10 at a garage sale and my brother's brought it over to me. It was the best investment she ever made. I had 4 children at the time one was a newborn, I still did cloth diapers on a regular basis. The disposable ones were for when we traveled or went visiting. Those diapers were sparkling clean as well as the rest of the clothes. And it cleaned my husband's blue jeans for work Magnificently. And that's when blue jeans were heavy-duty blue jeans.
We had a carpet sweeper in the early 70’s and it was bought as new. My mum also had an electric waffle iron with removable plates in it, one side was for grilled cheese sandwiches or other pressed and grilled sandwiches, the other side was for waffles. I was given a new air hair dryer wit a cap in the early 80’s.
At least butter was made from pure cream unlike todays that have additives. Also those appliance’s were made to last not like todays that just make it past the guarantee.
@@rosanneshinkle4133 Not from real buttermilk. Buttermilk is what is left after butter is made from cream. What they call buttermilk now isn't true buttermilk. It's milk that's been artificially altered into buttermilk.
Even our circa 1960 black and white TV set had vacuum tubes. And my uncle's family had a coffee percolator that my aunt used to make espresso coffee for winter when we went to their home for the holidays. In my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. 😊
Years ago, I had a conventional wringer washer. I loved it, but the drying process was more difficult since the clothes line was at a distance. My conventional wringer washer was a Maytag that I bought at an auction!
Wringer washer was in my home in the mid-'70's. I was a child, but I helped "catch" the clothes as they came out the back side of the wringer, and laid them in the wash tub to be hung out to dry.
My mom had a wringer washer 'til 1964. She was so disappointed that she had to have a new automatic washer in the new house. She wouldn't give up her clothesline 😂 She had the whitest, best smelling laundry. I remember our icebox and the ice man coming with the hugh blocks of ice. The hair dryer with hood was great...no more headaches from sleeping with humongous rollers on my head all night! Some things I miss, others not so much.❤😊
Another feature of percolators is the coffee is piping hot. I have to give my pod coffee 45 seconds in the Microwave in order to get the temp up to a reasonable level. I also preheat the cup in the micro with a few teaspoons of water . Otherwise the cold ceramic cup instantly cools the pod coffee.
One of my happiest childhood memories... Waking up to the smell of coffee and hearing the "burble and hiss" of the electric percolator. Mom and Dad talking in low tones as he got ready for work. ❤
I've used wringer washers and I'm not ancient. Used a meat grinder too. My mother uses a percolator. I love my iron skillet. All I have for heat is a coal stove.
When I was a child, my great-grandmother still used her wringer washer, and I did catch my fingers in it, out of curiosity. We also used a carpet sweeper. In the 60’s, we had a hand-cranked ice crusher.
We were a family of 7 living over the family’s corner taproom in the Midwest. My mom and us 5 girls used a wringer washer in the basement to wash clothes until 1970. In summer we hauled dry clothes down, wet clothes up and hung them up on a clothesline installed on a second story flat roof to dry…and in winter we used the clotheslines in the basement. Our ironing board was permanently installed in our small kitchen. And we felt blessed for what we had.
Those hand crank grinders are actually really good for making hamburger and pasty for us all the time. Pasties kind of like a British meat pie. EG equal parts of meat and potato a small onion for something the size of a 14-in pie pan. Grunge it all up into hamburger tape consistency mix put in a couple of pieces top and bottom and bake for about an hour or 350 or until Brown mostly you have to make sure that the meat is cooked and more or less dry ish
We had a mangle washer, when I was a child, in Brasil. Our maids were amazed that they did not have to wash our clothes by hand. I would love to have a range with a stew/soup crock pot type burner in the back. My father in law had a buffer for his shoes. I have my radiant heater on now, and it keeps my bath and room toasty warm, even with my drafty windows. I have 2 percolators. The coffee is richer than drip coffee makers. I still remember the Christmas my sister received her bouffant hair dryer. She was just 13, but felt so grown up.
We got our first electric fridge around 1950? I was about 5, my mom's uncle gave us his old one when he bought a new one, 😊I remember several of those items. Never heard of the shoe shine machine, lol. Did anyone else notice the "flexible" ice cube tray that was used to put ice in the ice crasher? 😅😂😅 We have one of those ventage heaters, gave it to my step dad a couple years ago when his furnace was broke, lol. Nice memories, thanks
In the 1960's, my grandma had a clothes wringer. My dad had a shoe buffer like that. My parents had a stovetop percolator. My mom had a hooded hairdryer with a hard plastic hood she sat under, like ones at the salons at the time.
My mum (as did my siblings)told me that she had a washing machine & mangle in the 1950’s/1960’s before I was born. In fact the washing machine was still in the kitchen being used as the base for a worktop (my dad had removed the mangle and built a wooden cover for the top) when I was a little kid. The thing was huge ! Shoe Buffers - these still exist in some hotels, albeit their look is different - I remember them at a hotel I worked at in 1990. Ice Crusher - I had one of these until around 3 years ago ! It was made of high-density plastic with a crank handle on top. I hadn’t used it in years due to Arthritis in my hands so took it to the Charity shop I volunteer at - it sold ! Waffle Iron - My mother had something better than a one of these but it used the same principle - it was for making toasted sandwiches ! The main part was round and about 3.5-4 inches in diameter and was on a hinged arm. You buttered a small slice of bread and put this buttered side down over the round pan part, put your filling in the middle - cheese and onion was a favourite - and placed another slice of bread buttered side up, and closed the iron; the two pans instantly cutting the excess bread off and sealing the filling within. Then you toasted this over a gas ring on the stove top. I remember eating these in the early 1970’s ! Carpet Sweeper - we had one of these in the 1970’s. It was Bissell orange and white one but it didn’t work with electricity - none of them did - it worked on the principle of rotating gears to run the brushes as you pushed it back and forth. It was ideal for clearing up small crumbs instead of getting out the hoover, especially if you spilt something that wasn’t a liquid after 10pm ! (not being electric, it wouldn’t cause any annoyance to neighbours at such a late hour). My parents updated theirs in the 1980’s to a Leifheit one which was metallic red and had these bigger brushes that stuck out at the front corners and lay flat to the floor - they served to pull crumbs into the rollers which ended up in a lift-out pan which was easier for emptying. I took this with me to my new home after my mother passed away, but left it behind in the cellar when I moved as I hardly ever used it. This was in the early 2000’s ! Hand-cranked Mincer - My mother had one of these - it had been her mother’s and her grandmother’s before hers. I can remember being fascinated by it as a child in the ‘70’s. It was made of cast iron and really heavy; the base was a pale green and had suckers on the base of its 4 legs, so that it wouldn’t move and this attached to the mincer part by a pin and locking nut. The crank handle had a detachable screw part that fed the foodstuff towards the different detachable plates that worked to mince the food. My mum was bought an electric food processor in the late 1980’s. Rotary Phone - We had a dark green one which was kept on top of the electric box cover (my dad had made it - he was a carpenter before becoming a policeman in 1951) in the hallway. This was updated to a cream wall mounted version in the 1980’s - also in the hallway. This gave you privacy to talk but also meant you would be left freezing in winter as there was no radiator in the hallway. Boiler - My mum told me in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s she would boil the nappies up on the boiler but that you had to watch yourself so that you didn’t get scalded or burnt by the hot steam and/or water.
I've heard that my 2nd Great Grandmother was doing laundry with the wringer washing machine. One day, her scarf got caught in the machine and some how she got tangled up. She ended up passing away. She died in 1916.
I had a blue speckled enamel ware wringer washer up untill 5 years ago. I used it for throw rugs at exterior door entrances. It finally died after, I don't know how many years. I got it used back in the 1960s.
My grandma had a wringer washer. She would sit me on a stool on the other side of the wringer to catch socks she put through. We had a rotary phone in the 1950’s but in my grandma’s town, you picked up the receiver, listened to see if your neighbor was on a call, to hear the operator say,”Number please.”
That was my first washing machine when I was 18. I couldn't afford a regular washing machine so I bought one used. I'm only 65, I figured it was cheaper than going to the Laundromat
I had a radiant room heater in the room I shared with my brother as a child. It helped us get to sleep on cold nights & yes, my parents were careful managing the heater.
In Romania and other balkanic countries wood fire stoves are still used for heating and cooking. Growing up there I also had to help my mum with the hand cranked food processors, there 4 types, one for groudimg sugar, one for meat, one for nuts and one for coffe. My mum still has all 4 of them to this day and cuz they were used for different ingredients, they look different
Wringer washers are so much better and very hard to find... still something that some of would rather use than machines that waste water and time of electricity ... new machines only good for blankets and big coats
I'm grinning because I am suddenly ancient. We used many of these products, or else repurposed them when something more modern came along. I still use some of these, and have a basement cluttered with other things that I really should donate.
Time just keeps marching on. I'm only in my early 40s and there are already things that make me feel old: Vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs, VHS tapes. Polaroid cameras. Cameras that use film. Classrooms using acetate sheets on a projector on a cart rather than a powerpoint presentation on an overhead digital projector. Writing school essays by hand. And I remember wristwatches being much more commonplace in the '90s than today since relatively few people owned a cell phone.
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I know I'm old when at least half of these items, we had when I was growing up. In so many ways, it was so much better back then!
Agree!
@@deewaddle10 Yes I too remember many of those appliances. I remember helping my mom with the laundry using a wringer washer. I thought I was so big! Those were the days!
Sure was and in some cases not needed because you would need a bigger kitchen or a walk in panrty
People did Not need spas or gyms to go thru when you got enough exercise at home doing work
Nothing electric about carpet sweepers the power was YOU pushing them back and forth !😅😂
Still have my Maytag wringer washer,going on 60 yrs,I'm 78.And it still works.
Yup. Built to last!
Back when products weren't designed to break after a few years
@@PatriciaDILLON-o8x sure wish I could still find one Only Amish have wringers separate from tubs
Back then…..Nostalgic…..When products were better built with exceptional quality materials….when plastic was not even in the thought and came to get everyone sick!!
WHEN AMERICA MADE THEM
Carpet sweepers are NOT electric!
@@wmalden actually some are my Bissell is it's a modern day version of the old type
But the picture he showed were of manual carpet sweepers
@@Gearset807 You can still get battery powered carpet sweepers today, I have one. They are very powerful.
@@overload65 I used to have one. But it looked like in the pictures all he was showing were manual carpet sweepers and the funny thing is he didn’t mention manual. he just mentioned electric. According to the video, it sounded like all carpet sweepers were electric.
@@wmalden still used today for a quick easy sweep up. Works great
The wringer washer never broke. Did a better job! I loved my mother’s.
@@francesjanelongley2002 But it crushed your fingers and caught your hair
@@shadrach6299if you were not careful
I used a wringer washer all of the 1990’s. Loved it I think it did a much better job at getting things clean.😊
I grew up with the ringer washer. You learned early to respect the rollers! Monday and Thursday were wash days. You would fill the wash tub with hot water using a hose attached to the faucet. Started with the whites and worked to the darks. After the wash the clothes were put through the wringers and each load was stacked. At the end of the wash cycle you would empty the wash tub and refill with cold water. Back the clothes went lights to dark as they were rinsed , put through the wringers and finally hung on the line to dry.
@@sharonbapp9613 ah yes, that wringer got me now and again! We didn't get electricity till 1954, in our house, so ice chest and kero lamps and wood fuelled stoves were my childhood.
I remember those days also
I used one in the 90's loved it but it did break a few buttons
Rptary phones were built like tanks and lasted a lifetime.
I still have a touch-tone that I bought in the 1980s...it is one tough unit!
everything seemed to last longer back then.
Still used our wall mounted rotary phone until 2006. No power - no problem! 😁 I only stopped using it because I moved. It was the avocado green and was installed in 1963.
@@Lucylou7070Back circa 1970 I took the B55 bus from my school to 126th Street 2 blocks from my house. I read the builder's plate of the GM bus it had the month and the year it was built .... 1949! The B55 had the oldest buses of the New York City Transit Authority. The B56 had the modern 1960s buses with sliding windows. 😊
@@Lucylou7070 far less plastic is why
Now everyone here knows what it means to be "put through the ringer".
Or the meat grinder!
That’s to let you know, how dangerous they were. I had a neighbor, whose daughter almost lost her arm in one. Had to have major surgery. I remember my grandmother, getting caught also, but she managed to get away from it. They could just suck you in.
That Maytag machine was great. Sheets and towels first, work clothes last or throw rugs. My Mother always watched those wringers and warned me not to touch. Used through the 50s and some 60s,Never wore out and kept it for the rugs.
@@georgiafrye2815 Yes we had that Maytag Armstrong..only square wringer machine in history ...you start with delicates and then to lint free whites to towels and bedding .. and do work clothes .. change water to do darks and more work clothes ...change water and start over again ad repeat and change water if needed to for rinsing ...and yes had fingers and wrist caught once ..nothing severe ...
Now have a mini washer with great agitation and a spinner .. NO need for long washes or spinning ...but cleans great.. had hand washed all for about 15 years till unable to do so .. wish had found these machines along time ago
I go caught in one of those ringers, I was eight years old. I was playing with the ringers, next minute, up to my arm in it. I hollowed out in shock, but the shock I received from mum was the worst, and hurt.
@kamauwikeepa7308 Am pretty sure I know what you mean ...😂
The carpet sweepers were not electric, they were manually operated. Pushing & pulling them caused gears or rollers to turn the brushes, there was nothing electric about them & kids were given the job of running these sweepers for moms.
Plenty of those around, but we had a Kirby vacuum bought in 1953, the year I was born, and used it into the 1970s when it finally crapped.
@@maxon-m3c Oh no! Now you've reminded me of 'The Brave Little Toaster', and I need a little cry.
@@Anthony-l3z1d wr had one ad well. I was going to mention the same thing..not electric!
Still got one.sweeper that is.
And, having no suction and lacking a motor in the sweeper head, they picked up at best surface litter.
During the Time of Rotary Phones, it was More Difficult for Telemarketers & Telescammers to get a hold of you.
@@davedruid7427
Amen to this
Would love to be able to go poof from these folks
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There's a great movie scene, wish I could remember the Movie (sorry) when a prissy model-type gets stranded at some last ditch motel, and declares she is calling to have somebody come pick her up, and is completely stumped by the rotary dial; sort of pokes at the holes in befuddlement. so cute!
Party lines.
I think that fifty years ago there were fewer telemarketers. So many now no longer have a land line and just use a cell. And the telemarketers have auto dialers, but we have caller ID, so we can ignore them.
when I was a kid we lived off grid, icebox, ringer washer, outhouse, rootcellar, wood stove, kerosene lamps, pressure cooker to preserve food, butterchurn, , milk separator, lots of firewood, It was a hard life in northernmost wisconsin, I remember -60° where the house doors were frozen shut. I told myself that when I grew up I never wanted to live that way. such a hard life it was. I love modern living, electricity, oil heat, refrigerators, air conditioning, etc.
1:35 When my dad was a kid (in the early 1930s), they had an ice box. The ice man came twice a week. As the ice melted, it dripped into a bowl below the icebox, and Taffy (his dog) would drink from that.
To his dying day, dad always called the refrigerator, "the ice box."
My mother grew up with one as well, same era. Her father cut the ice in the winter and stored it in an ice house cut into the north face of a hill.
My husband always said ice box as well. I am 74 and remember my Grandmother's ice box.
I don’t recall conveyor belt toasters being a household appliance, but rather a commercial one. And one that is still used a lot today
Never saw one. I have a "Toast-O-Lator from the '40s, that takes vertical toast through a series of elements and drops it out the other end.
Some chain pizza places have pizza ovens that use the same concept.
They were too big & bulky to sit on kitchen counters as kitchens were smaller & space was a premium.
I recall our toaster didn't "Pop-up", it contained a spring motor that caused the toast to rise slowly from the toaster after the handle was pushed.
@@jameslocopo4742 By knowledge as well they were only institutional here
News flash: Wringer washer were made by Speed Queen until 1996.
Maytag made them into the 1980s, mostly for sale to third world countries.
Wow! I did not know that.
Still.made today. Amish quakers etc.
I can't get enough of these videos!! I'm ready to time travel back to 1984 Keep em coming!
I remember my mother using a wringer washer. She also carried buckets of water from a stream that ran through our property to fill the machine. She was only 4’ 10” tall but her physical strength was astonishing.
In 1950s suburbia, as a kid, I still remember a few families using wringer washers!
We had a wringer washer until about 1960.
She could have been in the Women's Wrestling Entertainment on TV! 😁
Had a wringer washer when I went flatting - well after the 1960s. Wish they were still available - did a better job wish less water and detergent as well as extending the life of articles as you could manage wash time length.
I absolutely LOVE percolated coffee!!
In the 1950s our wood cookstove had a "water front" or "water jacket" to automatically heat the water, which was stored in a pressurized tank behind and above the stove,
I still use a hand cranked meat grinder when I make chopped liver. A food processor would turn it into mush.
I still use: stove top perculator, a "Dover" egg beater, "Griswold" cast iron skillets and a waffle iron with a No. 8 base, a circa 70s "Sunbeam" Mixmaster, several 50s era "Mirro" pressure cookers, and a piece mealed set of "Revere Ware Chef's Request" pot and pans.
Yes, I bake my own bread, too.
lol you just made me hungry, a half loaf of nice hot bread and a half pound of butter please
I have my Mama's Revere Ware 2 quart double boiler and use the pot nearly every day. I can remember standing on a stool and stirring homemade puddings in the double boiler. Seemed like it took hours, but the result was worth it! I also have the 1 quart pot and the small soup pot, used daily. Also have the Dutch oven. All copper bottomed.
@@tarnishedknight730 I got a wonderful stove top percolator on Amazon. I use it exclusively😊
Cough, cough, cough, and cough! C'MON MAN! 😮🤔😵💫
@@tarnishedknight730 my griswold cast iron is the only way I make cornbread.
5:20 In the 1970s, I was taught that the first thing you should look at is a man's shoes ...
So yes, I had shoe shining brushes, polish, polishing towels ... and kept my and my dad's shoes shiny and nice.
Head waiters judged men by their shoes. Dirty or scuffed shoes might have resulted in a table next to the kitchen door!
I remember quite a few of these appliances. My aunt had the wringer washer.
My mom had one of those toasters where you opened the flaps on the sides, put the bread in push a button to light up the element and toast your bread.
We had a coal stove and my mom used that to heat up the iron. (My bother still has the iron and uses it as a door as a doorstop. We also had a kettle to boil water.
She also had one of the electric coffee machines, which I now own.
Those old coffee grinders where you crank a handle to grind the coffee beans.
Her fridge only had a small freezer.
These some of the appliances I remember that my mom had. 😊
I grew up using a ringer washer & always loved them . I liked that you chose how much water & how long to let your clothing wash . I would love to have one now . These modern washers use too much water and soap . I also loved how the clothing smells after drying outside
I'm 76 and one of my jobs as a child was to help Mum with mangling the washing. It was very big, painted red and the handle was quite hard to turn. It did a good job though! Loved the Amish gentleman showing us his icebox!
When Hurricane Helene visited, she destroyed cell phone towers and I was without phone service for 13 days. As a part of my recovery efforts, I installed a rotary phone.
Now, as long as the lines aren't down, I have phone service.
@@ghw7192NICE !!!!! not to mention the old rotary dials were more than capable of subduing a home intruder. Also, I really feel bad for Gen Z and most millennials who never got to experience the fine art of swiftly ending a conversation gone sour by slamming the hand set on the cradle while the other party is still yelling when they hear a loud CLACK! followed by the dial tone 🤣😉
Jokes aside, but Gen Z and most millennials really under appreciate just how reliable and robust mid 20th century equipment can be . Nowadays if your $2,500 Samsung refrigerator lasts more than 5 years you'd swear you purchased a quality product. Unlike the appliances from before the early 90s made in the USA that typically lasted for decades and only replaced because the looks were outdated like the avocado green and harvest gold kitchen appliances that defined the 1970s
@@rarelampcollectorOMG!! We had all these appliances (stove, fridge, washer/dryer in avocado. Later same in harvest gold plus the dish washer). All purchased from Sears & Roebuck. These appliances lasted forever! The dishwasher worked from 1975 until 2001!
check to make sure your land line uses hard wire copper service. i recently moved and the only phone service available was use voice over IP. so if your cell/internet is unavailable, there's no phone service.
@sixmax11 Thanks for THE heads up but the phone is working fine.
Most excellent
A "mangle wringer washer" is really not a thing. A mangle is a device used to press (i.e. iron) fabric. A wringer, though similar in appearance, is used to squeeze water out of fabric. Therefore the proper term for the appliance is a "wringer washer".
Growing up in Germany in the 1950’s we called these wringers “Mangel”. My grandma had one, and as a little kid I would love putting wet clothes through the wringer by cranking the handle! I think there was a bit of magic involved. Then there also were the more commercial “Heissmangel”. (Hot Mangel). Those were made of 2 large hot rollers. You fed large pieces of dry laundry through, such as bed sheets or tablecloths, in effect ironing them. The Heissmangel looked much like the wringer, only much larger, and it was electric.
I’ve bought a few of those old wringer washers over the years and turned them into beverage coolers for parties and patios. Just add ice and your favorite canned drinks. The washer already has a drain hose attached and a lid to keep the cold in.
On your percolator coffee segment I noticed the coffee mug said “Wolf Pack Cafe - St. German, Wisconsin “.
We have been going there for years. Great food up in the Northwoods. 👍
When I was a child, my mother had a wringer washer that had two tubs divided by a wringer. My grandmother had a spring house on one of her properties. The spring house kept produce very fresh. My siblings and I would frequently sneak into spring house for a snack.😊
Did anyone in your family ever get their hand caught in the wringer washer?
The way the narrator talked, it sounded almost unavoidable LOL
My husband said his mother had one & he got his arm caught in it as a little boy- so Yes it Can happen pretty easy. (No real harm done he’s fine- he was Lucky)✌️
People still use the radiant space heaters to warm cold spots where the central heat doesn’t quite do the job.
I have a couple, but they are enclosed and have fans.
@@TooLooze We those such heaters to keep our remote pumphouses from freezing. (I use a small one, backed by an old box fan to blow heat onto the well head.) My electric bill usually doubles in winter.
We had a wringer washer when I was a kid. I got my hand caught in the wringer a couple of times. Thankfully it had a safety release.
@@dmandman9 I got my arm caught in the wringer and it crushed my triceps on my left arm. Can’t do three pull-ups!
I knew someone who used a Maytag wringer washer until she died in the mid-'80s.
@ I actually want to find and buy one for old times sake… if it’s affordable.
@@MarylynAdams wow! Yours must not have had the safety release. I don’t know when stay started using that design.
@@dmandman9 That may have been when they had motorized rollers. The only other thing to stop it would be if someone came into the room and saw you stuck in it.
My maternal grandfather used a truck to sell ice for the iceboxes in San Francisco. It was in the late 20, early 30s.
Interesting video, but riddled with errors. 🥴
Jesus, I'm old!
still have my Maytag wringer washer and it works and I still use it..
cleans WAY BETTER than modern HE washers1
@@bmwfitness28 my mum had and used one in the 1960's.
That is totally awesome! You must have great upper body strength. ❤❤
The name ice box stuck in many families: it was what we called the refrigerator!
Some people still use that term.
@@dmandman9 and there's also icebox cake which is basically a no bake cake made out of chocolate wafers cookies and whipped cream in the cookies are simply softened being in the whipped cream for set alarm for time in the refrigerator
@@robertknight4672True...and delicious!
@@dmandman9I know. I say it myselfsometimes!😊
I pass a construction site and still think of "steam shovels"!
My father remembered the iceman and his delivery wagon from his childhood. He also remembered that strong man carrying it up to apartments on all four floors of the walkup apartments of his youth.
A few people still had ice boxes as late as the early 1970’s . A few places still didn’t have electricity in backwoods rural areas at that time
My grandmother heated her house with a Mealmaster wood / coal kitchen range. It had a pipe that coiled around the firebox which was attached to a tall copper tank which sat behind the stove and was fed by the cold water supply, and delivered the heated water to use in the house for bathing, or doing dishes in the kitchen. For laundry she heated water in large copper "wash boilers" on top of the stove, and would pour the water from them into her wringer washing machine. She had a 2 tub rinse stand. When the clothes had run through the cycle long enough in the washer, she would run them through the wringer into the first tub to rinse out the soap. For colors the second tub would be filled with just more hot water, and she would run them through the wringer again and rinse them a second time in that second tub before a final wring out, after which she hung them on the clothesline. for whites the second rinse tub would be filled with hot water also, but to that water she would add "bluing" which made them look even whiter and brighter.
You can still buy bluing here in WV. I use it occasionally to brighten my whites.
Percolators made great coffee
I never used a "Mr. Coffee" maker until the late '70s. A secretary showed me how to work it.
Nana had a wringer washer. We loved it. Mommy didn't even want us in the kitchen when she used it, but we loved wringing out clothes.
She knew how dangerous it was and just didn't want anyone getting pinched in it. Really these days people might mistake them for some kind of medieval torture device.
There was a reason why many older folks called the refrigerator an "icebox". Same function, different method. When I was a kid, I saw a lot of churners at garage sales
My mom always called the refrigerator an icebox.
Carpet Sweepers are still manufactured and sold. I have one. They aren't electric.
@@andytaylor5476 I have a electric carpet sweeper
I remember the wringer washing machine, the coal furnace, the icebox and the iceman, and the floor model radio with it's orangish dial and Sunday night programs. For some reason I don't recall programs on other days. We children sat on the floor in front of the radio and watched the magic. I recall getting a transistor radio for my 12th birthday and thought I was in heaven!
When I was 10 I loved to play with the wringer washing machine!
I actually had a toy one that required D batteries to Swish the water. Didn't use it much due to the need of batteries.
I’m almost embarrassed by the number of the products showcased in the video that I have actually used.
Rotary phones were heavy so that they wouldn’t slide around when you dialed a number. The first Princess phones had the dial on the base and were practically unusable until they moved the dial to the handset.
With the exception of the electric shoe dryer, I am familiar with these things from my great grandparents generation to my early childhood. Doesn't make me feel old, but they do make me feel nostalgic.
Coffee pots that drip leave you with raw coffee that is hard on stomachs ... boiled coffee is cooked coffee and more tasty and uses less grounds and better for health ...
I was years back in the mids of Thailand and China in a small villages and there they still had ice boxes and meat safes.
Vacum cofeemakers are still sold until today in Asia.
I was on holiday in Italy and many people still use the perculator and are still sold world wide.
The shoebuff machine and toaster oven with rolers I see in many hotels.
Iron stoves are still sold in America and Canada for the outback as centrall heating and cooking.
Wood fire water heathers are still sold, they look different but they heat your leaving room and also the water for centrall heating system.
Radiant heather I still see in many DIY stores.
The carpet sweepers are not electric and still sold on as seen on TV a couple of years ago.
My Mom had a wringer washer until washateria's/laundry mat. My MIL was still using a wringer machine 45 years ago.
My grandmother used a wringer washer into the 1960s. It was in our basement. She also used a stick to separate clothes during the agitation process (there was no cover on the drum). That stick was so whitened it looked like a whale bone.
I remember a wringer machine just like in your photo in my husband's grandparents basement in the 1970's ~~ I didn't realize that it also washed! Good people.
It's true that as long as a machine works, I keep it, not replacing it because a new style comes in. I recently had a (to me) new Maytag washer repaired ~ the switch turning it on & off when you lift the lid wasn't working. I had to laugh when the repairman said it dated to pre-2000. Lol! He said that this model was the best washer they'd made! Lol!
❤ Nice to think of you today, Grandma and Grandpa!
The push sweepers shown weren’t electric. The brushes were turned by the wheels attached to the brush shaft. Also, the mangles shown on some of the washing machines had automatic releases if your hand or clothes got caught. It still hurt, but eliminated most bone breaks.
They're called wringers, thus wringer washing machine.
I love coffee. That's why I still use a percolator, just like my parents did. Makes perfect coffee every time
Thank you ... this brought back many memory's of growing up in the early 50's !
In 1979 I had no washer or dryer. my mother bought a ringer washer and 2 tubs for $10 at a garage sale and my brother's brought it over to me. It was the best investment she ever made. I had 4 children at the time one was a newborn, I still did cloth diapers on a regular basis. The disposable ones were for when we traveled or went visiting. Those diapers were sparkling clean as well as the rest of the clothes. And it cleaned my husband's blue jeans for work Magnificently. And that's when blue jeans were heavy-duty blue jeans.
We had a carpet sweeper in the early 70’s and it was bought as new. My mum also had an electric waffle iron with removable plates in it, one side was for grilled cheese sandwiches or other pressed and grilled sandwiches, the other side was for waffles. I was given a new air hair dryer wit a cap in the early 80’s.
I miss my wringer washer every time I've gotta gotta go to laundromat with bedding!
My parents had two battered stovetop percolators (no cord), that were older than they were. Those things lasted at least two lifetimes!
At least butter was made from pure cream unlike todays that have additives. Also those appliance’s were made to last not like todays that just make it past the guarantee.
Exactly right!
My daughter makes butter from buttermilk.
@@rosanneshinkle4133 Not from real buttermilk. Buttermilk is what is left after butter is made from cream. What they call buttermilk now isn't true buttermilk. It's milk that's been artificially altered into buttermilk.
Even our circa 1960 black and white TV set had vacuum tubes. And my uncle's family had a coffee percolator that my aunt used to make espresso coffee for winter when we went to their home for the holidays. In my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. 😊
My sister had a bonnet style hair dryer. She had long Farrah Faucett hair. I had a short Season Hubley shag. I needed no hair dryer
Years ago, I had a conventional wringer washer. I loved it, but the drying process was more difficult since the clothes line was at a distance. My conventional wringer washer was a Maytag that I bought at an auction!
Wringer washer was in my home in the mid-'70's. I was a child, but I helped "catch" the clothes as they came out the back side of the wringer, and laid them in the wash tub to be hung out to dry.
During the segment on Hood Hair Dryers, Barbara Eden (of I Dream Of Jeannie fame) appears for a moment at 19:20 of the Presentation.
My mom had a wringer washer 'til 1964. She was so disappointed that she had to have a new automatic washer in the new house. She wouldn't give up her clothesline 😂 She had the whitest, best smelling laundry. I remember our icebox and the ice man coming with the hugh blocks of ice. The hair dryer with hood was great...no more headaches from sleeping with humongous rollers on my head all night! Some things I miss, others not so much.❤😊
LOL at 12:10 I’m watching the carpet sweeper as I look down and notice I have exactly the same area rug.
Another feature of percolators is the coffee is piping hot. I have to give my pod coffee 45 seconds in the Microwave in order to get the temp up to a reasonable level. I also preheat the cup in the micro with a few teaspoons of water . Otherwise the cold ceramic cup instantly cools the pod coffee.
One of my happiest childhood memories... Waking up to the smell of coffee and hearing the "burble and hiss" of the electric percolator. Mom and Dad talking in low tones as he got ready for work. ❤
I find the mid-century ice crushers did a better job of chopping ice cubes than food processors. The latter makes ice slush, not chopped ice.
My aunt had a wringer washer into the 70's. She kept it in her open garage where she did her laundry summer and winter, rain or shine.
I've used wringer washers and I'm not ancient. Used a meat grinder too. My mother uses a percolator. I love my iron skillet. All I have for heat is a coal stove.
When I was a child, my great-grandmother still used her wringer washer, and I did catch my fingers in it, out of curiosity.
We also used a carpet sweeper. In the 60’s, we had a hand-cranked ice crusher.
I remember a lot of these items. We had some of them in our home. As a matter of fact I have some in my home.
Loved this trip down memory lane , I only remember some of them.
I have a Dremel shoe buffer. They were expensive and normally in high-end offices and men's rooms.
I recall seeing an electric shoe buffer in a hotel in Brazil.
You can still buy show buffers, about $200. They are also used now to clean dirt off shoes before going into sterile or clean environments.
We were a family of 7 living over the family’s corner taproom in the Midwest. My mom and us 5 girls used a wringer washer in the basement to wash clothes until 1970. In summer we hauled dry clothes down, wet clothes up and hung them up on a clothesline installed on a second story flat roof to dry…and in winter we used the clotheslines in the basement. Our ironing board was permanently installed in our small kitchen. And we felt blessed for what we had.
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Wow.! I guess I’m old. We had the hand cranked food processor. We called it a meat grinder. That’s how we made sausage when we slaughtered hogs.
Those hand crank grinders are actually really good for making hamburger and pasty for us all the time. Pasties kind of like a British meat pie.
EG equal parts of meat and potato a small onion for something the size of a 14-in pie pan. Grunge it all up into hamburger tape consistency mix put in a couple of pieces top and bottom and bake for about an hour or 350 or until Brown mostly you have to make sure that the meat is cooked and more or less dry ish
We had a mangle washer, when I was a child, in Brasil. Our maids were amazed that they did not have to wash our clothes by hand. I would love to have a range with a stew/soup crock pot type burner in the back. My father in law had a buffer for his shoes. I have my radiant heater on now, and it keeps my bath and room toasty warm, even with my drafty windows. I have 2 percolators. The coffee is richer than drip coffee makers. I still remember the Christmas my sister received her bouffant hair dryer. She was just 13, but felt so grown up.
We once have that washing machine. I can tell you it was powerful and very efficient it cleans faster than modern auto wash machine.
I have a glass vacuum coffee maker from the 50s. I still use it, and it makes the best coffee I’ve ever had.
We got our first electric fridge around 1950? I was about 5, my mom's uncle gave us his old one when he bought a new one, 😊I remember several of those items. Never heard of the shoe shine machine, lol. Did anyone else notice the "flexible" ice cube tray that was used to put ice in the ice crasher? 😅😂😅 We have one of those ventage heaters, gave it to my step dad a couple years ago when his furnace was broke, lol. Nice memories, thanks
I have a little butter churn. It makes absolutely delicious butter!
In the 1960's, my grandma had a clothes wringer. My dad had a shoe buffer like that. My parents had a stovetop percolator. My mom had a hooded hairdryer with a hard plastic hood she sat under, like ones at the salons at the time.
My mum (as did my siblings)told me that she had a washing machine & mangle in the 1950’s/1960’s before I was born. In fact the washing machine was still in the kitchen being used as the base for a worktop (my dad had removed the mangle and built a wooden cover for the top) when I was a little kid. The thing was huge !
Shoe Buffers - these still exist in some hotels, albeit their look is different - I remember them at a hotel I worked at in 1990.
Ice Crusher - I had one of these until around 3 years ago ! It was made of high-density plastic with a crank handle on top. I hadn’t used it in years due to Arthritis in my hands so took it to the Charity shop I volunteer at - it sold !
Waffle Iron - My mother had something better than a one of these but it used the same principle - it was for making toasted sandwiches ! The main part was round and about 3.5-4 inches in diameter and was on a hinged arm. You buttered a small slice of bread and put this buttered side down over the round pan part, put your filling in the middle - cheese and onion was a favourite - and placed another slice of bread buttered side up, and closed the iron; the two pans instantly cutting the excess bread off and sealing the filling within.
Then you toasted this over a gas ring on the stove top. I remember eating these in the early 1970’s !
Carpet Sweeper - we had one of these in the 1970’s. It was Bissell orange and white one but it didn’t work with electricity - none of them did - it worked on the principle of rotating gears to run the brushes as you pushed it back and forth. It was ideal for clearing up small crumbs instead of getting out the hoover, especially if you spilt something that wasn’t a liquid after 10pm ! (not being electric, it wouldn’t cause any annoyance to neighbours at such a late hour).
My parents updated theirs in the 1980’s to a Leifheit one which was metallic red and had these bigger brushes that stuck out at the front corners and lay flat to the floor - they served to pull crumbs into the rollers which ended up in a lift-out pan which was easier for emptying. I took this with me to my new home after my mother passed away, but left it behind in the cellar when I moved as I hardly ever used it. This was in the early 2000’s !
Hand-cranked Mincer - My mother had one of these - it had been her mother’s and her grandmother’s before hers. I can remember being fascinated by it as a child in the ‘70’s. It was made of cast iron and really heavy; the base was a pale green and had suckers on the base of its 4 legs, so that it wouldn’t move and this attached to the mincer part by a pin and locking nut. The crank handle had a detachable screw part that fed the foodstuff towards the different detachable plates that worked to mince the food. My mum was bought an electric food processor in the late 1980’s.
Rotary Phone - We had a dark green one which was kept on top of the electric box cover (my dad had made it - he was a carpenter before becoming a policeman in 1951) in the hallway. This was updated to a cream wall mounted version in the 1980’s - also in the hallway. This gave you privacy to talk but also meant you would be left freezing in winter as there was no radiator in the hallway.
Boiler - My mum told me in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s she would boil the nappies up on the boiler but that you had to watch yourself so that you didn’t get scalded or burnt by the hot steam and/or water.
When I was in Elementary school we made homemade butter with a clothes pin in a Mason jar turned out fine and good 👍
I've heard that my 2nd Great Grandmother was doing laundry with the wringer washing machine. One day, her scarf got caught in the machine and some how she got tangled up. She ended up passing away. She died in 1916.
carpet sweepers were not electric !fact check!
I had a blue speckled enamel ware wringer washer up untill 5 years ago. I used it for throw rugs at exterior door entrances. It finally died after, I don't know how many years. I got it used back in the 1960s.
the stove waffle maker kinda makes sense tho as could be stored with pots and pans, instead being another applance taking up counterspace.
My grandma had a wringer washer. She would sit me on a stool on the other side of the wringer to catch socks she put through. We had a rotary phone in the 1950’s but in my grandma’s town, you picked up the receiver, listened to see if your neighbor was on a call, to hear the operator say,”Number please.”
That was my first washing machine when I was 18. I couldn't afford a regular washing machine so I bought one used. I'm only 65, I figured it was cheaper than going to the Laundromat
I had a radiant room heater in the room I shared with my brother as a child. It helped us get to sleep on cold nights & yes, my parents were careful managing the heater.
way to make me feel really really old!!
I do miss percolators. The smell could not be beat, and the taste was glorious.
A mangle isn’t a washing machine. It’s a machine that you sit down in front of and iron stuff with.
I believe hotels still use them, and are legally required to iron linens (to kill bed bugs?)
That is what I thought, the mangle ironed.
@@alicenovak3579 My grandmother had a mangle. There are videos on UA-cam of them in action!
My Grandmother had boarders as had a large home and used a mangle to iron sheets.
In Romania and other balkanic countries wood fire stoves are still used for heating and cooking. Growing up there I also had to help my mum with the hand cranked food processors, there 4 types, one for groudimg sugar, one for meat, one for nuts and one for coffe. My mum still has all 4 of them to this day and cuz they were used for different ingredients, they look different
I want one of the ringer washers. My mom had one and our clothes was always cleaner than what the machines being used today!
Wringer washers are so much better and very hard to find... still something that some of would rather use than machines that waste water and time of electricity ... new machines only good for blankets and big coats
I'm grinning because I am suddenly ancient. We used many of these products, or else repurposed them when something more modern came along. I still use some of these, and have a basement cluttered with other things that I really should donate.
Time just keeps marching on. I'm only in my early 40s and there are already things that make me feel old: Vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs, VHS tapes. Polaroid cameras. Cameras that use film. Classrooms using acetate sheets on a projector on a cart rather than a powerpoint presentation on an overhead digital projector. Writing school essays by hand. And I remember wristwatches being much more commonplace in the '90s than today since relatively few people owned a cell phone.